Comment 17 for bug 925145

Since the cloud platforms I have access to don't generally employ the sort of instance-driven network configuration that cloud-init can do I am hesitant to try and fix the issue myself, but I am happy to pull in patches once they exist. If you have the cycles to work on this I would certainly appreciate it. Upstream suggested using python-netifaces as a means of abstracting the platform-specifics away; doing that might make the fallback you mentioned unnecessary.

To be frank, I am *this* close to forking net-tools just so I can go back to using the same network management commands that I use on every other operating system. If all else fails, that would make this issue go away, too.